scare someone out of their wits
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English
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[edit]scare someone out of their wits (third-person singular simple present scares someone out of their wits, present participle scaring someone out of their wits, simple past and past participle scared someone out of their wits)
- (transitive, informal) To frighten someone to such an extent that they behave irrationally.
- Synonym: frighten someone out of their wits
- He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “scare someone out of their wits”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “frighten scare sb out of their wits”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.